Project Summary

CHRONIOUS addresses a smart wearable platform, based on
multi-parametric sensor data processing, for monitoring people suffering from
chronic diseases in long-stay setting. It is constantly monitoring
their activity using audio observation methods and activity sensors while at the
same time tracking their medical condition via vital signs sensors. Any trait of
abnormal health status and possible alerting incidents are detected by CHRONIOUS
Intelligence. The system generates alerts in case of invalid medical data or if
current activity and behaviour lay outside the well established activity
patterns and locomotion behaviour.

CHRONIOUS proposes an adaptive and ubiquitous chronic disease
management system that offers continuous monitoring to patients by
using several sensors either in a form of a wearable solution or scattered in
the patient´s living environment and a series of intelligent services to
healthcare providers and organisations that aid them in the monitoring of their
patients.

An overarching goal of the proposed system is to underline and emphasize the
partnership between technology-centered and human-centered
sciences as technologies for sensing, computing and communications
become increasingly ubiquitous.